Qalandiya, Ar-Ram, Sunday afternoon, 19/12/04 Observers: Tamar F. and Phyllis W.Ar-Ram: We arrived at Ar-Ram CP at 2 PM. Pedestrian traffic was thin. School children passed through outside the line. DCO representative A. was friendly, a welcome change from past experience.Qalandiya: Pedestrian traffic was quite heavy. Behavior of CP Commander A. was quite hostile and he used an aggressive tone when speaking to Palestinians. His attitude was picked up and amplified by the soldiers in his charge so that the female soldier checking at the northern entrance to the CP was heard to use rude and insulting language. Some respite was offered when problems were brought to the attention of D. of the military engineering unit in charge of CP security or to E., DCO representative. (However, it's only fair to note that each time we informed CP Commander A. of pressure in the waiting lines he quickly dispatched a soldier to man the humanitarian line until the pressure abated.)Work is being done at the northern end of Qalandiya CP, between the CP and the parking lot. There were a lot of security forces in this area, including 4-5 soldiers standing on "towers" improvised from concrete blocks looking down on the people approaching the CP from the north (with rifles at the ready). A number of security personnel were milling around a BP jeep standing near the barbed wire fence. They told us they were guarding workmen fixing an optic fiber cable and that their presence was required due to the fact that a workman had been attacked there one month ago. Intermittently the people in the BP jeep were making announcements through a megaphone. We asked two passers-by to translate what was being said and both independently told us that the soldier/policemen in the jeep were making sexist comments about passing Palestinian girls. Jeep license plate was 22-268 M.At the CP we met S., a resident of Abu Tor (Jerusalem). He told us that on Tuesday, Dec. 14th, his ID card had been confiscated at 9 AM when he was returning from a delivery of drugs to Ramallah in his truck. CP Commander A. confirmed that he had taken S.'s ID and said that he personally had delivered it to division headquarters and that they were supposed to transfer the ID to the police station at Neve Ja'acob. S. reported that he had gone to the Neve Ja'acob police station on Wednesday and again on Sunday. His ID card was not there nor was it at division headquarters. (Note that it is against IDF regulations to confiscate ID's.)DCO representative E. reported that he had inquired concerning special arrangements that will be in force for election day in the Palestinian Authority on January 9th. None of his superiors new of any such special arrangements or preparations.